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...Doo Dam is a third-grader in Seoul who, like many eight-year-olds around the world, is nuts about Pokémon. But unlike most kids, he's conflicted. He knows the popular animated characters come from Japan. He has also learned in school how Japanese soldiers brutally invaded and colonized his homeland back in 1910. After his mother reminded him that every Pocket Monster sold helped Japan get richer, Doo Dam successfully resisted buying any Pokémon cards. "Japan is bad," he says. "No one nation should be above another nation...
Hair curlers and Pocket Monsters, comfort women and labor camps. Like young Lee Doo Dam and retiree Park Sung Pyo, much of Asia sees Japan as a country with a split personality, a hard-to-understand culture that inspires contradictory sentiments. It represents evil. And fun! Fear. And awe. No matter what the impression, the stereotypes fail to capture the nuances of the culture - or the postwar relationships that have evolved between Japan and its Asian neighbors. Instead, the images of Japan - the warmonger, the economic powerhouse, the rich sugar daddy and the epitome of teen cool - are like...
...DOO WAH DIDDY...
Everyone is risk-averse these days. Everyone wants to play it safe. Why? Where’s the harm is going out on a limb, being creative, being —gasp!—original? I want bigger, better, bolder! Instead, we get the same recycled doo-doo—is it any surprise that plagiarism seems to be such a trend-o-rama? Perhaps the saying should have been, “There’s no business like old business.” Let me explain...
...Rouge to be a creative tour de force…Speaking of Moulin Rouge, the new Nicole Kidman spread in Interview magazine is wonderfully insightful. Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann does the interview, so check it out… Freddie Prinze Jr. is gonna play Fred in the Scooby Doo movie, so one day my blocking group went around trying to figure out who each of us would be if we starred in the adaptation. I thought that I’d make a darn good Scooby, but when my name came up, everybody unanimously declared, “Daphne...